Two weeks ago, President Cyril Ramaphosa delivered the annual ANC January 8 statement under the theme “unity, socio-economic renewal and nation-building”. The unity theme echoes the message he has been preaching to his party since he was elected its president.

The need for unity in the ANC is primarily a result of the fragmentation into factions that reached its zenith in 2017, when divergent views on policy and governance matters came to a head at the national conference. Such divergence transcended policy issues and translated into the eventual choice of who would best champion those policies...

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